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READING 2 Read and write. Write the name of the invention.

1 Listen and read. TR: 7.9 1. It’s something you eat.

YOUNG and Creative 2. It can help people who live in big cities.

3. It’s something a blind person can use to read.

Did you know that a teenager had the first idea for a television? And a six-

year-old boy invented the toy truck? Kids and teens are great inventors because 4. It’s useful if you don’t have electricity.
they have a lot of creativity and imagination. 5. It happened by accident.

2018: At the age of 19, Angad Daryani invented a solution to the problem
of air pollution in cities. Growing up in Mumbai, India, he suffered from asthma 3 Read and write. Complete the chart.
caused by the polluted air. Air pollution is a big problem. Three million people die

each year. Angad’s invention is an air pollution cleaning tower that is 6.1 meters Who When What Why
(20 ft.) high. The tower sucks in air and takes out the particles of dust and
carbon. The particles are collected and can even be reused. Angad’s dream is Angad in 2018, when he was an air pollution He had asthma caused

to build thousands of the towers and improve the quality of air in cities. Daryani 19 years old cleaning tower by air pollution.

2013: Canadian high school student Ann
Makosinski was 15 when she invented the “hollow
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flashlight.” The flashlight uses heat from the human
body and changes it into light. It doesn’t need

batteries. Ann thought of the idea when she heard
about a friend who lived the Philippines. Her friend
was doing badly in school. She needed to do her
homework at night but there was no electrical light in her home. Ann’s flashlight

isn’t expensive. Ann hopes it will help some of the 1.1 billion people in the
world who still have no electricity in their homes. 4 Discuss the questions. Work in groups
of three. Do you have the same opinion?
1905: When Frank Epperson was eleven, he left a cup filled with soda and a
stick in his yard. That night he forgot about it. It was a very cold night. When Which story was the most interesting? Why?
he went outside the next morning he found something amazing: a “Popsicle”! Which invention was the most useful? Why?

1824: Louis Braille had an accident when he was three. The accident
left him blind. At that time, it was hard for blind children to read. They NUMBER OF PATENT FILINGS AROUND THE WORLD
had to touch raised letters. But it was easy to confuse a Q with an O, an R 1,800,000 Diane Bisson invented
with a B, and so on. When he was fifteen, Louis invented an alphabet that 1,600,000 a series of healthy and
1,400,000
used raised dots. The Braille alphabet was a big success! 1,200,000 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 tasty plates and bowls
that you can eat!

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